WoW emulator?
 

I have found that I love playing EQemu because its the whole game free (apart from donations). I have returned to games like LoTRO, DDO and some others that I used to play in the old days. I have never played WoW before and dont really want to pay to check it out.
Does anyone know about any free WoW emulators?

Go away.

there are many - just search google.
the problem is, WoW doesn't had a single coding hub like eq emu- there are like 5 different wow emu core-bases in US alone, that all run in a different way. Each of them have something working, and something broken, and each only partially complete.

WoW was actually pretty damn good when it was first created - and a lot closer to classic EQ than you might think by looking at the state of the game today. Then it was made steadily worse and worse over the years to make it easier and simpler/quicker for the casual player, just like EQ.

I can't think of anything I'd hate more, I had my doubts about a free EQ server to start with but the old EQ community spirit is there and that's fantastic.

Somehow the backward unfriendly WoW community, on a free server... doesn't fill me with much confidence that it would be any fun to play on ;(

Keep it here, keep it P99 :)

I've played on a few WoW private servers over the last couple years and they are all mostly a waste of time and should be shut down.

99% of them are blatant profiteering criminals selling donor gear and pocketing all the funds.

All the major cores developer teams seem only interested in getting their core updated to whatever is current on Blizzlive. Things from Vanilla and TBC that have been broke for years are still broke because they have moved on with no intent of ever making it work.

And yeah the communities. Worse than live.

Honestly dude if you want to try WoW just google "wow free trial" and don't screw with the broken ass emu servers. Its like a 10 day trial and more than enough time to decide if you like the game or hate it.

10 days? nah, it's pretty polished for the newbie zones. Even EQ made the ultimate polished starting area to get people to buy a box and sub, which is unlike the rest of the game hehe. 20+ days into WoW it starts to show the suckage, really. By the time you work your way into the expansion areas, you say to yourself "now I know why they all say "I'mmmmm Booooored"". If you want to be one of the cool kids though, you gotta get the real sub, then you can come back here and criticize/troll our game as is the norm :o

Guys, we have an oFf topic forum for a reason..